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What can you give to someone who wants to produce less trash? Here are three gifts for friends and family who want to reduce their waste in 2018. These products also support American companies. Check out my three zero waste gifts that I received for my birthday – great stocking stuffer ideas!

The three gifts featured in this podcast are:

• Metal straws
• Dental lace or silk dental floss
• Bamboo toothbrushes

Story of Brush With Bamboo Toothbrush

I sewed a storage bag for metal straws – there is a divider down the center to put dirty straws in a separate place for cleaning

My Favorite Zero Waste Instagram Accounts

• Be Zero
• Going.Zero.Waste
• Green Upward
• Package Free Shop
• Pare Down Home – Canadian
• Tiny Yellow Bungalow – the store where you can buy these three zero waste gifts
• Trash is for Tossers
• Wasteland Rebel
• Zero Waste Chef
• Zero Waste Home – The Instagram feed of Bea Johnson who wrote the book Zero Waste Home, where I first heard the term.
• Zero Waste Nerd

Crafts People I Admire Who Make Zero Waste Gifts

• Anne Riggs Designs – unpaper towels, make-up removal pads, drying pads – located in Portland, Maine
• Teebags – bowl covers, cheese covers – located in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Artists Mentioned in this Podcast

• Karyl Sisson – Straw art
• Trashlation Tumblr – People with a photo of 24 hours worth of trash
• Gregg Segal – Trash photo projects including 7 Days of Garbage

Show Details

• Script for this podcast episode about gifts for zero waste enthusiasts (not a transcript but gives the main ideas)
• The Trashmagination podcast theme music is Kitchen from the Marian Circle Drum Brigade.